The Arrival Of Restrict - David Hockney's Latest Exhibition

Something similar 85% of digital drawings inwards The Arrival of Spring sold before David Hockney's novel exhibition opens tomorrow at Annely Juda Fine Art.  However the stars of the exhibition are a novel ready of charcoal drawings completed inwards Spring 2013 - too they're non notwithstanding for sale.  I imagine when the fourth dimension comes they'll either last donated to a major fine art gallery or museum or they volition last sold equally a consummate ready - too if that ever happens it volition accept somebody amongst real deep pockets.

"Woldgate, The Arrival of Spring inwards 2013" - 4 of the 5 serial of 5 drawingscharcoal drawings

"The Arrival of Spring inwards Woldgate, East Yorkshire inwards 2011"

The xx color prints inwards "The Arrival of Spring inwards Woldgate, East Yorkshire inwards 2011" were drawn on Hockney's iPad too were purpose of the ready of about l plant shown at the Royal Academy of Arts inwards his blockbuster exhibit inwards 2012.  They were all drawn knowing that at about squall for they would expire large prints.  In this exhibit a few of them receive got expire real large prints!  There's i novel impress inwards the show

The color prints are at nowadays beingness marketed for the real outset fourth dimension which peradventure explains the real slap-up involvement despite the fact that the prices of these small-scale express edition prints are eye-watering.

"The Arrival of Spring inwards Woldgate, East Yorkshire inwards 2011" past times David Hockney
(Left to right) 1 Jan 2011, 4 Jan 2011 too xviii Dec 2011
The impress on the correct is a novel i which was non included inwards the RA exhibit too records wintertime rain

"The Arrival of Spring inwards Woldgate, East Yorkshire inwards 2011" past times David Hockney
(Left to right) xviii March 2011, 25 Apr 2011, 1 Apr 2011, xviii Jan 2011 too 23 Feb 2011
139.7 cm x 105.4cm

"Woldgate, The Arrival of Spring inwards 2013"

"The Chinese tell dark too white contains colour, too thus it can"
David Hockney

On the 3rd flooring are 6 serial of charcoal drawings, all drawn on an entire canvass of Arches Aquarelles amongst the impressed makers cite ever bottom correct - addition a video. These comprise

• 5 serial of drawings - each serial containing 5 drawings - all done betwixt Jan too May 2013
• a serial of drawings titled "Vandalised Totem".  which had been outset vandalised too and thus cutting downward - made inwards Nov 2012, next a small-scale fry stroke
• a video made inwards wintertime 2010 of the route along Woldgate inwards heavy snow. 

Vandalized Totem past times David Hockney
charcoal drawings 57.5cm x 78.8cm
signed too numbered
Nov - Dec 2012

He was making these drawings having lately suffered a small-scale fry stroke. The outset drawing inwards Nov 2012 took 2 days but afterward that he says he flora he concentrated to a greater extent than - too for the adjacent 6 months he did naught but describe inwards charcoal.

To me they're to a greater extent than sophisticated than the ones I saw at the RA - too I was real impressed past times those!(see Review: David Hockney RA - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Bigger Picture - Making a Mark too Hockney is bigger than Van Gogh! - I visited the exhibition 4 times!)

One knockout aspect for me was the charcoal drawings - which were precisely stunning. I never ever tired of looking at these - but exclusively appreciated the relevance of him drawing trees too forest inwards charcoal on my terminal visit.

Gregory who runs the line concern terminate of Hockney dorsum inwards Los Angeles said he felt that the drawings were dissimilar from the ones before.  To my mind, i real obvious argue they await dissimilar is because they're a considered serial of 5 drawings of a house he at nowadays knows real good indeed.  Walking into the 3rd flooring space, i is instantly made aware of the deport upon of charcoal drawings when done equally a serial of drawings of the same infinite over a current of time. The drawings also remind you lot real much of the subtlety that charcoal has inwards the hands of somebody who knows how to job it.

Woldgate - from the Arrival of Spring inwards 2013 by David Hockney
(left to right, altitude too thus bottom) 6-7 February, 6 May, 12-13 May, 20-21 May, 27 May

I personally flora that they kept reminding me of Van Gogh's reed pen drawings of the countryside too trees inwards Provence.  Hockney uses the same multifariousness of inwards notations too mark-making used for trees too leaves too grass which felt real familiar too comfortable. (I'm a huge fan of Van Gogh's drawings - if you'd similar to discovery out to a greater extent than well-nigh his drawings you lot tin download the catalogue of the exhibition of Van Gogh's drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on their publications website - for free)

I definitely recommend this exhibition to anybody who is a fan of Hockney, a fan of landscape drawings, a fan of digital fine art or charcoal drawings - too if you're all of these, equally I am now, you'll receive got a genuinely wonderful experience!

Plus the video of Woldgate continues to mesmerise - precisely equally it did at the RA!

One of the nine screens displaying the journeying along the snowfall route of Woldgate inwards 2010.
You tin play 'spot the totem' equally it used to be!

The catalogue is also fantabulous - real skillful reproduction too good presented.

The exhibition continues until 12 July too tin last seen at Annely Juda Fine Art, 4th Floor, 23 Dering StreetLondon W1S 1AW.

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